Program/accelerator:

Capacity Sharing

We will drive a culture shift towards more equal and healthier partnerships for capacity sharing between and among CGIAR and partners advancing food, land, and water systems transformation, placing a strong emphasis on gender equality, women’s empowerment, and youth inclusion.

We will integrate innovative approaches in data, digital tools, scaling strategies, and soft-skills programs to build capacities among partners and within CGIAR, working across local, national, regional, and global contexts. This will address the fragmented, top-down, Global North-driven approach which has shaped the traditional capacity development in agricultural research.

Agricultural transformation, Sustainable agriculture, Economic development in agriculture, Agricultural innovation, Decent work in agriculture, CGIAR research priorities, Labor rights in agriculture, Gender equality in farming, Social protection in agriculture, Agriculture in the Global South, Farming practices in the Global South, ILO guidelines agriculture, Agricultural labor laws, Child labor in agriculture, Agricultural workers' rights, CGIAR ILO seminar, Policy guidelines agri-food sector, SDG 8 agricultural sector, Promote decent work and economic growth, End child labor in agriculture.

Our work aims to help through

  • Co-creation of advanced capacity-sharing science
  • Enhanced and consistent capacity-sharing between partners
  • Capacity gap reduction and capacity retention

Where we will work in

Africa, Asia, South America

Challenges we’ll address

  • Necessity of skills and knowledge required to equitably drive transformational change to address pressing global challenges – such as demographic shifts, environmental degradation, climate change, geopolitical instability, rising inequalities, and advances in frontier technologies
  • Demand to accelerate the transfer, acquisition, sharing, and retention of essential capacities, particularly among partners in the Global South
  • An obligation to shift culture toward the decolonization of science in food, land, and water systems

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Areas of Work

  • The CapSha Innovation Laboratory
    We will provide the evidence base for delivering tailored and state-of-the-art capacity sharing support to bolster an increase in leadership and investment in capacity sharing for food, land, and water systems, and design and test new partnership models and capacity sharing approaches.
  • The CapSha Marketplace
    We will address the gaps between capacity development supply and demand, both within and across institutions and enhance essential skills retention. We will support CGIAR Programs and National Agricultural Research and Innovation Systems (NARIS) partners to optimize the management of capacity resources, by mainstreaming and streamlining capacity development supply and effectively responding to evolving demands.
  • The CapSha South-South and Triangular Cooperation
    We will tackle specific challenges in South-South and Triangular cooperation for food, land, and water systems, such as a lack of investment in building and retaining NARIS research and innovation capacities, and limited opportunities for collaboration and capacity sharing among NARIS and CGIAR.

Gender Equality & Social Inclusion

We aim to advance gender-specific mapping, partnerships, tools, and sustainable investments by leveraging CGIAR’s gender equality and social inclusion expertise, fostering dialogue, exchange, and collaboration with the Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Accelerator to integrate gender-focused capacity-sharing initiatives across agriculture and food, land, and water systems.

Our Approach

Interlinked support across CGIAR’s portfolio
We will work closely with the Better Diets and Nutrition, Breeding for Tomorrow, Climate Action, Food Frontiers and Security, Genebanks, Multifunctional Landscapes, Policy Innovations, Scaling for Impact, Sustainable Animal and Aquatic Foods, and Sustainable Farming programs, and the Digital Transformation and Gender Equality & Social Inclusion accelerators.

Working to share our capacity with

  • academia, training and higher education institutions, learning platforms
  • multilateral organizations, international financial institutions
  • governments, National Agricultural Research and Extension institutes, and non-governmental organizations

Built on CGIAR’s proven expertise

  • A network of centers across the world with well-established training and education programs, drawing on decades of experience
  • A pool of internal capacity-sharing practitioners, with expertise in Learning Management Systems, curriculum design, and online course development
  • A well-established relationship with, including NARIS and higher education institutions from the Global North and South, and regional country offices to leverage for local engagement

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